VacationSelector

San Francisco or Stuttgart?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San FranciscoStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km443
Coast distance2 km476 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 24 points.24
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score8359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3929
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 12 points.12
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score4456
Museums within 10 km5765
Museums within 2 km of centre2921
Share of museums within 2 km %5132
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score6849
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km9753
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 20 points.20
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score6080
Protected land share 50 km %1751
Landscape blanket share 50 km %431
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 12 points.12
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score5745
Tourist attractions within 2 km4811
Park area within 2 km45 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score6344
Notable places within 2 km14750
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 15 points.15
San FranciscoStuttgart
Score7863
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months73
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
16 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 146 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureSan FranciscoStuttgart
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m245 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoStuttgart
City population873,965633,484
People per km²1,4553,054
Museums within 10 km5042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre10859
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.